Two long-time Jersey head-bangers have written a new book that makes the case for the Garden State as one of the fertile mosh pits for cultivating heavy metal music over the last half-century.
“Jersey Metal” is the first of three volumes that are a part-memoir, part-encyclopedic look at the genre’s local bands, fans, venues and promoters. A revised version of volume one, which track’s Jersey’s connection to the genre between 1969 and 1986, became available Friday.